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In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens the Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. Maya finds some comfort in her work, until a group of six couples share their personal stories of desire for a child. Their painful and courageous journey...
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Fear made him hide. Hope brought him back.
A lot has changed in the world in the many decades since Peter escaped from the Nazis and settled into his new life in America. But meeting Peter, you'd never know it. The same furniture, the same black and white TV, the same rotary phone. Hidden away in the same tiny apartment in the same broken-down NY neighborhood, Peter is just fine with the nothingness of his life.
And then the dreams begin. His boyhood...
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This book is written for those who struggle to be at peace with who they are. This was my story. For so long I doubted myself; I compared myself to others and in any given situation, I felt like I was either too much or not enough.
Jesus says that He came to give us life in abundance, and these words intrigued me. Could it be that I was missing something? What were the keys to living a full life as promised by God?
Through the process of adopting...
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The Red Thread is the definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film.
Gottheim's account of the evolution of his work over the decades provide an extraordinary window onto the development of the art form in America in the late 20th century. His own account of his lifelong exploration of the boundaries of cinematic perception is here combined with the reflections of other major film artists and critics...
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After a suicide attempt left him hospitalized for seven months, Jesse Holbrooke is returning home to live with his parents. Despite the treatment he received, his depression hangs like a cloud over his head, casting his life in a perpetual darkness he can't seem to escape. But just when the obstacles become insurmountable, a glimmer of light appears.
Life hasn't been easy for Adam Foster, a barista with a bad stutter, but he keeps his chin up and...
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“The Red Thread” is the true story of an expat woman's struggle to complete her family while living in India.
After shunning infertility treatment and adopting her first child, Sarah knows that family is created from love not DNA, so she sets out to replicate the fairy-tale experience of her daughter's adoption from Cambodia. But things are not as straightforward this time.
After choosing a baby to adopt, Sarah comes up against the risks of...
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A seductive literary love story set in contemporary Shanghai, The Red Thread intertwines the lives of two pairs of lovers across the centuries. Shen, a young, American-educated appraiser in a Shanghai auction house, is captivated by Ruth, a self-possessed Australian artist who happens into one of his auctions. As they fall in love, Shen finds that their lives are strangely mirrored by those of the characters in a rare Chinese manuscript that is nearly...
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Bernard Faure is Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy, Chan Insights and Oversights, and Visions of Power (all from Princeton University Press).
Is there a Buddhist discourse on sex? In this innovative study, Bernard Faure reveals Buddhism's paradoxical attitudes toward sexuality. His remarkably broad range covers the entire geography of this religion, and its long evolution from the...
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Tensorate novellas volume 2
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Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens across the land, but no matter what tragedy Mokoya foresaw, she could never reshape the future. Broken by the loss of her young daughter, she now hunts deadly, sky-obscuring naga in the harsh outer reaches of the kingdom with packs of dinosaurs at her side, far from everything...
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The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available simultaneously.
Fallen prophet, master of the elements, and daughter of the supreme Protector, Sanao Mokoya has abandoned the life that once bound her. Once her visions shaped the lives of citizens...
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In Love Your Heart, Diana von Welanetz Wentworth guides readers through a succinct course in caring for their physical hearts by nourishing those of their spirit. A heart-attack survivor, television chef, keynote speaker, and the author and coauthor of nine books including the Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook, and Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body and Soul, Diana draws from a wealth of life experiences in designing her uplifting heart-care program....
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"When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates would help lift China’s poorest and increase the country’s global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy’s repercussions on every sector...
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Ranma 1/2 volume 14
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Shampoo obtains the "Red Thread of Fate," which can make anyone fall head-over-heels in love with the user.
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Ranma 1/2 volume 14
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Shampoo obtains the "Red Thread of Fate," which can make anyone fall head-over-heels in love with the user.
17) Tender: stories
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The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar's weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.
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Make your idea irresistible.
You have a terrific idea. It's so powerful that it could change a life, a market, or even the world. There's just one problem: others don't see its power-yet. If you truly value the possibility of your idea, then you're ready to find your Red Thread-the through line that connects your idea to your audience's hearts and minds.
The best part is, the Red Thread already exists. It's the connection that makes the invisible...
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Friends Neil and Mayu find themselves drawn into a series of anime worlds when they purchase drawings from a mysterious supplier at a convention. As their memories, forms and reality change, the red thread of fate still binds them together as they cling to the hope of returning home.
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"Joyously wild stuff. Highly recommended." -The New York Times
One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazine
A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to Neon Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of...